Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 8:26 PM ET

COKE max pain

Spot (delayed)$208.73
Max pain · Thu, Jun 17$230+10.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$50.05±24.0% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI0.8618 puts / 21 calls
Call wall$230largest call OI
Put wall$230largest put OI
IV3046.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$928per 1% move · flip ≈ $190

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 20$200-4.2%25d
Fri, Dec 18$195-6.6%53d
Fri, Mar 19$160-23.3%144d
Thu, Jun 17$230+10.2%234d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot230140160180200220240$1M$0
■ put-side pain■ call-side painTotal payout option writers would owe at each settle price (both sides, all open interest, ×100 shares) — low settles hurt put writers, high settles hurt call writers. The minimum — 230 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)COKE open contracts per strike for Thu, Jun 17.

Open-interest change: building vs unwinding

Needs two observed snapshot days for this expiration; the comparison appears automatically once the next weekday snapshot lands. We diff real observations only; nothing is estimated.

Volume by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot23014018020023011
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot14016018020022024042%37%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 37.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spotflip 190140180200230+$837−$837
Net dealer gamma per strike, in dollars per 1% move, assuming the standard convention (dealers long calls, short puts) — an assumption, not an observation. Above the amber flip level hedging tends to dampen moves; below it, to amplify them.

Greeks by strike · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.92-0.011400.00210.25-0.02-0.08
0.79-0.031750.00430.49-0.04-0.22
0.76-0.031800.00470.52-0.04-0.24
0.71-0.041900.00530.57-0.05-0.30
0.65-0.042000.00580.62-0.05-0.36
0.53-0.052200.00640.66-0.05-0.49
0.47-0.052300.00650.66-0.05-0.56
0.41-0.052400.00640.65-0.04-0.63

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot951401651902302802380
Call open interest per strike, stacked across the checked expirations — each color is one expiry. Strikes are pruned to the liquid center of each chain.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot951251551852302902K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 2K call contracts, 3K put contracts open.

Reading this honestly

Max pain is arithmetic, not prophecy: the settle price that would minimize what option writers pay out at expiration, computed from open interest alone. Prices sometimes gravitate toward heavy strikes into expiry — dealer hedging is a real flow — but the evidence that max pain predicts settlement better than chance is mixed, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Use it as a map of where positioning is stacked, next to the fundamentals and the earnings calendar, not as a target.

Data: Cboe delayed public feed (~15 minutes), refreshed here about every 15 minutes. Open interest itself updates once daily, before the open. Educational information, not investment advice.

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